Experimental High Energy Phyics (Doctorat-1821-LH-01) - Student at Marseille, CPPM

The Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille at Luminy (University of Aix-Marseille) has an opening for a PhD position in the LHCb experiment.

The starting date will be October 1 2018 and the duration will be 3 years.

The successful applicant will be expected to work on the search for physics beyond the Standard Model with the very rare decays of B_(s) mesons tau leptons in the final state. These are key channels to indirectly determine the new physics phase space and are still very unconstrained, because of the difficulty in reconstructing the tau leptons in a hadronic environment..

The CPPM group of approximately 15 researchers and engineers (currently 3 graduate students) has a strong involvement in the LHCb experiment, including the level 0 muon trigger and upgrade data acquisition system, as well as and several physics analysis topics in rare B decays and lepton flavor (universality) violation. The group has also strong ties to the local theory group at the Centre de Physique Theorique de Marseille

More information:

Job Offer:
https://www.cppm.in2p3.fr/stages.php?TYPE=M2&id=Doctorat-1821-LH-01

 LHCb: http://lhcb-public.web.cern.ch/lhcb-public/

The Laboratory (about 150 physicists, engineers and admin, depending on the IN2P3/CNRS):
http://marwww.in2p3.fr/

The Luminy Campus, walking distance from the famous calanques and the beach:
https://sciences.univ-amu.fr/sites-geographiques/site-luminy

Knowledge of the French language is not required. We do ask for students having obtained or expected to obtain the Master degree by September 2018 and with an excellent academic level, in order to obtain the grant (which will be assigned in June).

Applications, including a CV, a letter of motivation, university records, and the names of two academic references willing to provide further information and letters on the candidate should be sent to: